Avoiding Junk Mail

[Guest headnet2@googlemail.com]

AOL have a facility with their e-mail that only accepts mail from

addresses in the indivual's address book Is this unique to AOL or can

it be used with other servers ie Yahoo?

 

Richard

[Guest Mark Shroyer]

Re: Avoiding Junk Mail

 

On 2007-07-20, headnet2@googlemail.com <headnet2@googlemail.com> wrote:

> AOL have a facility with their e-mail that only accepts mail from

> addresses in the indivual's address book Is this unique to AOL or

> can it be used with other servers ie Yahoo?

>

> Richard

 

As far as I know, neither GMail nor Yahoo Mail provide a

straightforward way to only accept messages which are purportedly

from senders in your address book. However, this is not a widely

accepted method of blocking spam because (1) the From: header is

easy to forge, and (2) what if someone new wants to send you an

email?

 

What GMail and Yahoo *do* support are two effective and flexible

means of recognizing non-spam messages, Sender Policy Framework and

DomainKeys/DKIM. You can read about them here:

 

http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys

http://www.openspf.org/Introduction

 

Since you're asking about Yahoo in comparison with AOL, I take it

that you're considering switching email service providers. In that

case, I highly recommend GMail -- it's very good all around, and its

spam filter is top notch (which would make sense, come to think of

it; filtering spam does fit within the company's core competency of

organizing information).

 

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[Guest Mark Shroyer]

Re: Avoiding Junk Mail

 

On 2007-07-20, Mark Shroyer <usenet-mail@markshroyer.com> wrote:

> Since you're asking about Yahoo in comparison with AOL, I take it

> that you're considering switching email service providers. In that

> case, I highly recommend GMail -- it's very good all around, and its

> spam filter is top notch (which would make sense, come to think of

> it; filtering spam does fit within the company's core competency of

> organizing information).

 

And now I notice that you posted the original message from a Google

account, making this entire paragraph superfluous :)

 

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Mark Shroyer

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[Guest Tim Slattery]

Re: Avoiding Junk Mail

 

headnet2@googlemail.com wrote:

>AOL have a facility with their e-mail that only accepts mail from

>addresses in the indivual's address book Is this unique to AOL or can

>it be used with other servers ie Yahoo?

 

Most email providers and POP3/SMTP email clients have mail filtering

capabilities. White lists, black lists, keyword or expressing

scanning, even Bayesian filtering are very widespread.

 

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[Guest Plato]

Re: Avoiding Junk Mail

 

headnet2@googlemail.com wrote:

>

> AOL have a facility with their e-mail that only accepts mail from

> addresses in the indivual's address book Is this unique to AOL or can

> it be used with other servers ie Yahoo?

 

ps an account at email.com has been working quite well for me also. They

seem to hate/block spam very well also.

[Guest Plato]

Re: Avoiding Junk Mail

 

headnet2@googlemail.com wrote:

>

> AOL have a facility with their e-mail that only accepts mail from

> addresses in the indivual's address book Is this unique to AOL or can

> it be used with other servers ie Yahoo?

 

gmail by default does quite a good job at stopping spam by defrault.

 

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[Guest Allen]

Re: Avoiding Junk Mail

 

Plato wrote:

> headnet2@googlemail.com wrote:

>> AOL have a facility with their e-mail that only accepts mail from

>> addresses in the indivual's address book Is this unique to AOL or can

>> it be used with other servers ie Yahoo?

>

> gmail by default does quite a good job at stopping spam by defrault.

>

Too bad they don't block the spam their users send out. I see more spam

with gmail addresses than from anywhere else.

Allen